new game release: Radiator Forever, a new ongoing re-remastered collection of all my experimental gay games, all in one package!... still free ($0), now on Steam + Steam Deck verified Info + links on my blog (SFW): www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/07/radi...

me, getting out of the backseat of a car in my high school parking lot: it's wild that, even though im in my senior year in college, i have one last class to finish here. me, waking up violently: bitch you graduated college sixteen years ago, that's the worst thing you've ever written

maybe three times a year i go through and try out a bunch of new book podcasts and every year (or two) one of them sticks. A Meal of Thorns Stuck. one of very few single-interviewer single-guest podcasts that consistently has really illuminating conversations about genre, writ large & small

the soundtrack to this game is genuinely incredible, and the game has also stuck with me for ten years

please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/

20 years of #deaddadsclub this year nice. #nodads probably still my most influential contribution to the culture. also like 9 years since i came out as not a man. happy fathers day from the greatest dad hater you know

I wrote a thing about Backrooms, Us, the underground labyrinths of the Bay Area where I grew up, AI slopplegangers, and what's really lurking underneath Silicon Valley. It's my first for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org, and I think you'll really enjoy it.

i think this is the first time ive genuinely tuned in to a livestream since uhhh the Waypoint 72 hour launch? and also the first time ive ever actually contributed, due to perpetual broke. they did a good & cool thing that was also consistently clear on the material impact without inflating numbers.

just watched Danni one-shot the Lord of Cinder at level 6 in Dark Souls three in the middle of being goaded into paying for a guest's spa day so this is pretty good, as is the cause www.twitch.tv/rangedtouch/

AARPPCO

Something fun we learned as we were thinking over this one: the border between Piedmont and Oakland is carved with Flock cameras ... (Image courtesy of @deflock.org)

Oakland's the only place I've ever felt at home, and ORB has already been regularly publishing the kind of work that isn't just interesting but makes me excited to write (even if its just a blog) again for the first time in years. So glad they hit their goal.

the link to the really good article student article On Cigarette Culture in Berkeley pushed me over, gotta support the ORB www.theberkeleypulse.com/campus-cultu...

Hi @sfstandard.com! Allow us to retort: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oak-vs-sfo-w...

this & people saying "reactionary" when they mean "reactive" or "reactively" are two hills i recently learned i will not in fact die on, but simply mill about upon for the foreseeable future

“I’d found that rarest of things among mass-produced commodities: something that’s better than it has to be.” Loved this delectable piece by @annieblloyd.bsky.social that arrived in my inbox yesterday 👏 @oaklandreviewofbooks.org

can I walk you through my favorite things about this site, which I made *with these hands*??? (thread lol) petobits.coyotemedia.org

buy books for prisoners motherfucker

didnt get the numbers today because i forgot how much work it is to make the store physically walkable/accessible after IBD. did process somewhere around $700 worth of orders/purchases in store of books for PLP. tired 🙃

I guess while I'm here: I've had the privilege of getting to help out occasionally at BRZD and I thought this podcast episode was genuinely wonderful and would highly recommend it to anyone interested in zines longarmstapler.substack.com/p/new-episod...

(now okay this is all true but i did say 'positive reason' bc retail work is so physically & emotionally draining to me that I've basically been in low-to-medium levels of burnout this entire time)

It is Independent Bookstore Day, and I guess I have been a bookseller at an indie for six years now, so why don't I say a thing about the biggest positive reason I have stuck with this job for twice as long as any other gig I've ever held down.

im out the loop but have we entered the moment when coflow/run the jewels is embarrasing yet? seems like ive maybe missed two/three versions of discourse

still thinking about this article a lot www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...

A finished kitty flip book! I am inordinately proud of this silly little thing

Big news! ARB's first fundraiser is officially live! We're shooting for the very modest goal of $1k, with lots of stretch goals in mind. Your support is of course appreciated, and any help in spreading the word would be wonderful!

more on this later when im not at work prob but hey: i cowrote a zine! Its called (Moby) Dick List and is one sentence about each chapter of Moby Dick, as written by me and a friend. available as a physical zine for a small amount of money or free online here: beegabberel.itch.io/mdl

more on this later when im not at work prob but hey: i cowrote a zine! Its called (Moby) Dick List and is one sentence about each chapter of Moby Dick, as written by me and a friend. available as a physical zine for a small amount of money or free online here: beegabberel.itch.io/mdl

i only watched the movie thing until i saw my homie's sister not win, but up to that point Conan's disdain for AI seemed p cool

If you've ever celebrated being featured in a Critical Distance roundup, please help them keep the lights on. They put in a lot of work for not very much pay (most members are purely volunteer!) and help keep what remains of the game criticism community together

i just finished the forthcoming 3rd book by an author i think is genuinely one of my favorites of all time and i despised it. i dont know what to do with this feeling.

just another thursday guerrilla advertising for Ranged Touch at the Shop

its been like six months and i keep thinking about it so i think i need to write about Tom's Crossing. how does one write. why do i love that book & all that dorks books so much.

SFULTRA is the only solo podcast i can listen to and im so glad Sean covered what might be the only good science fiction novel ever written (it might also be the only good novel ever written). im excited to listen to this two or three more times.

I say all this because--you knew this was coming--I hope you, who are reading this, might feel the same way, and help us out: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org#/portal/signup

As we gear up for our true launch in a few weeks--multiple pieces a week, which writers are paid to write, that wouldn't have been written otherwise--we're gearing up to be really annoying about asking you to help us out and contribute. That's what "everything we publish will be free, always" costs.

So, a quick note on Oakland Review of Books, or ORB: a handful of us are working to will it into existence, and--aside from a big boost to get started from our friends at @ebbooksellers.bsky.social--it's a self-funded operation whose goal is to exist and enable writing like this.

oops i bought Frankenstein so the real prize is all that's left

Please see the award-winning poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by the US government today in Minneapolis. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

Just spoke with the owner, Dante, & learned there is a fundraising page. If you are not in a position to give, please consider sharing this widely. Let's blow through that preliminary # -- immediate access to cash gives options the fire would seem at first to destroy. giveahand.com/fundraiser/n...

The Academic Work Tracker spreadsheet is now updated with 2026 dates! If you don't already, 2026 is a great time to start treating your academic work like the wage job where you are paid to work a certain amount of hours that it actually is: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

before work i baked a loaf of bread and put on this outfit so today i am the jump suit bread fairy

not to discourse but this little subchapter of Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards seems relevant to that whole male loneliness shit people keep posting about

this is a really good conversation about the local through a book that sounds very cool, between two good podcasters

Demonschool: Is OUT. It's out. Finally it is out. We hope you enjoy it. store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/... store.playstation.com/en-us/concep... www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

posting to no one again is lightly nice

i only know Isabella Star LaBlanc's work as the narrator for Stephen Graham Jones audiobooks (the second two novels of the Indian Lake Trilogy, The Baby Sitter Lives, & just today Killer on the Road) but today i remembered she is extremely capable of hitting the exact right notes to make me cry

I wrote a couple thousand words about a year of A Year of UFO 50 and UFO 50, lensing paratexts, and just lookin. uninterpretative.blogspot.com/2025/11/beyo...

good news for the people who are saying they'd never touch starbucks coffee anyway: you can go ahead and drop $5 in their strike fund sbworkersunited.org/strike-fund/

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX